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Comment 58 of 78, added on June 6th, 2007 at 8:57 PM.
the background to this poem is that Williams, who was a physician, was with
a terminaly ill child, looking out a window, he saw a wheelbarrow across
the courtyard. he thought if he could just get the child to walk to the
wheelbarrow, the child might have a chance to live. the child never made
it out of the bed, and the poem is about how he paid more attention to
getting the child to walk than to live.
bob from Canada
Comment 57 of 78, added on May 17th, 2007 at 7:03 PM.
I know what it means
its about poetry
its not straight forward
he is saying that so much depends on the little details to make poetry
right
Big-D-Rob
Comment 56 of 78, added on May 6th, 2007 at 11:37 PM.
this poem exposes what is wrong with society. Other races, or the lower
class have always had it rough. the red wheelbarrow is their form of life.
old technologies, like the wheel, is how the wheel barrow works. The red
stands out because is is the color people associate with several things
such as violence, or communism. The white chickens are the bourgeois,
businesses owners of the time period this was wrote in. They can survive
without the support of the wheelbarrow, and so they are just beside it, not
in any action with it. every line of this poem is something W.C.W. was
trying to expose, and to try to make a change.
b from United States
Comment 55 of 78, added on May 6th, 2007 at 10:04 PM.
what is so bad about this poem
Anthony from Australia
Comment 54 of 78, added on May 6th, 2007 at 9:37 PM.
the pome is to small
jon from United States
Comment 53 of 78, added on May 3rd, 2007 at 10:51 PM.
come on....both "sexy jew," and "jessie," both of your comments were
uncalled for. sexy jew...yours is just TMI and jessie....nice sterotype!
that could have been really hurtfull to some people....so i think you need
to be more mature....both of you!
wow from United States
Comment 52 of 78, added on April 10th, 2007 at 11:02 AM.
sorry..."sexy jew" but your comment was so uncalled for
it proves your insolence.
no wonder...your a jew!
jessie from United States
Comment 51 of 78, added on April 3rd, 2007 at 4:33 AM.
i think it's quite humorous to see that so many people waste their lives
commenting on what they think this poem means. i mean...my dick is longer
than this poem. he probably wiped his ass and described what the shit on
the toilet paper looked like. there is no deeper meaning. if anything, this
guy had Tourettes and randomly shouted out these words. they don't mean
anything. poo poo on you :P
sexy jew from United States
Comment 50 of 78, added on April 1st, 2007 at 7:29 AM.
Sorry, d, but Carlos can not possibly be using the word chickens without
inferring that they are the cowards.
ea
Comment 49 of 78, added on April 1st, 2007 at 4:55 AM.
i somewhat agree with janen. i think the red wheelbarrow symbolizes the
everyday little things that we take for granted. the white chickens is just
to juxtapose and create an image in our heads. in that way, we already
begin to notice the wheelbarrow more, as the colours contrast and red
stands out. plus, the enjambment of wheel barrow makes one realize[it has
wheels, and is shaped like a barrow].
d
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the background to this poem is that Williams, who was a physician, was with
a terminaly ill child, looking out a window, he saw a wheelbarrow across
the courtyard. he thought if he could just get the child to walk to the
wheelbarrow, the child might have a chance to live. the child never made
it out of the bed, and the poem is about how he paid more attention to
getting the child to walk than to live.
bob from Canada